I got pulled over and the cop found a 1/2 gram of pot in my car (a very small amount), which ended up with me having to do community service and take regular drug tests. I was working as a line cook at the time, but being forced to stop smoking weed gave me the push to finally apply for an entry level manufacturing position at a local company who does drug tests. Years later I still work there, but as a software engineer, and attending online college. I wouldn't quite say I'm grateful about the ass backwards drug laws and invasive drug screening, but I really can't argue that my current situation is a lot better than it was back then. Without that event, I might still be working random entry level jobs.

There's nothing quite like the unique pain of navigating an unfamiliar codebase that treats abstraction as free and lines of code in one place as expensive. It's like reading a book with only one sentence per page, how are you supposed to understand the full context of anything??

They all look like it's just a matter of time till they shred the side of your torso or take a finger.

Exshrekting

Software devs in general seem to have a hard time with balance. No comments or too many comments. Not enough abstraction or too much, overly rigid or loose coding standards, overoptimizing or underoptimizing. To be fair it is difficult to get there.

Depending on the software, you still get to think about garbage collection!

I've already left, but seeing them marching towards an IPO makes me even happier with my decision. I just fear that the mountains of helpful troubleshooting and advice on Reddit will be locked away forever soon, while the rest of the web falls to SEO and AI-generated nonsense text...

E plumbus unum

Shout out to the yt channel Ahoy for making some of the most sleepable video game videos, like this one: https://youtu.be/9F9ahZQ7oP0?si=AzP9X_vq-o96gPD_ Also great when you're not sleeping!

Nothing like trying to make sense of code you come across and all the function parameters have unhelpful names, are not primitive types, and have no type information whatsoever. Then you get to crawl through the entire thing to make sense of it.

If you think that's bad, don't think about how many important communications in the world happen completely verbally.

My well-trained monkey brain scrolled right past your comment, then I did a double take because I realized Lemmy shouldn't have ads. Thanks for that little scare, lol.